Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia

Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia is a radical Islamist group in Tunisia formed in late April 2011 by Saifallah Ben Hassin. The terrorist group had 1,000 members in 2013, and it called for the Islamization of media, commerce, tourism, and education, the establishment of an Islamic trade union against the secular Tunisian General Labor Union, and the release of imprisoned jihadists and Islamist clerics. The group has carried out terrorist attacks in Tunisia, with the Bardo National Museum attack being one of their claimed attacks.